Holly Thorne

Columnist, TMR

Covering Pop Culture,Technology, Weird News

Holly is a freelance writer and copy editor and founded www.picaediting.com in 2010. She has a background in journalism, publishing, and PR with interests in shiny gadgets and the absurd. Like a grandmother's purse, she is about three decades old, worn around the edges and mostly full of crap.Follow @crashholly

When earth succumbs to fireballs flung from space, earthquake-driven-tsunamis, and radioactive flesh-eating zombies, records of modern society will cease to exist. If history repeats itself, then an adult film studio’s plans to survive the apocalypse will historicize ancient earth much...

Congratulations, you have lived through the apocalypse. While your diligent preparation has enabled you to survive through the initial hours and proceeding weeks of complete social collapse, eventually the time will come when you will be required to leave the safety of your fortified residence and venture outside in search of supplies.

While artificial intelligence cleverbots usually learn from "conversations," with real people, the Creative Machines Lab at Cornell wanted to see what would happen if two ChatBots had a conversation with each other. This video is proof of two things: The...

With earthquakes, hurricanes and tornados taking over the east coast, the world economy teetering on a precipice, and Justin Bieber hosting the first episode of Punk’d, which returns to MTV, it’s not a stretch to believe the end of days are upon us.

All across New Jersey there were reports of flooding, toppled trees and massive power outages affecting nearly 500,000 households with as much as eight inches of rain expected to come. While millions of Jersey and east coast residents are sitting...

U.S. Geological Survey confirmed that an earthquake occurred in central Virginia at 1:53 p.m. It has been felt throughout the D.C. metro region and where I'm sitting 100 miles away. According to the Virginia Tech Geology Department, the largest damaging...

Tom and Marie Morgan were walking along the edge of a tributary of the Lewis River with their six year-old daughter Taylor and family dog Maggie. As Taylor ran forward to throw a rock into the river, the bank collapsed and, falling into the rushing torrent, Taylor was quickly swept away.

Farm bears receive a permanent hole cut into their abdomens for their gall bladders to be milked regularly. The holes are never closed and the bears are often fitted with iron vests to prevent them from maiming or killing themselves.

The small town of Warren Pennsylvania, which lies near Lake Erie on the edge of Allegheny National Forest, is quickly becoming the latest hotspot for those in search of close encounters with alien life.

To assist British police with the worst looting sprees in decades now going for four days in London, Research In Motion (RIM), the Canadian company responsible for the BlackBerry offered to release encrypted communications of its British users to help identify the violent rioters.

Carl Sagan once said, "The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of star stuff."

Margaret Shofner, an 80-year-old resident of St. John, Missouri, was in the midst of enjoying her Grape-Nuts with her granddaughter last week when an arrow shot through her kitchen window and lodged in her mouth.The arrow was shot by...

As we all know, keeping up with the latest fashion can be a costly endeavor. We all want that 5th Avenue look but not all of us have a 5th Avenue budget. With a little creative effort, common household items can be utilized to create a look that will be the envy of your friends and guaranteed to turn heads. How much did it cost? That's for you to to know. In this week's handy fashion guide, we show how aluminum foil can be used to striking effect.

Despite the website's disclaimer, "After contributing real money, buyers will not receive any tangible piece of art and will instead by presented with a written description of their purchase," someone still bought something.

If you are preparing to pack a years' worth of quality time into one-week of travel with those you are obligated to spend time with, don't let running into a zombie deter you from having fun. Just remember to be prepared, travel light, check the backseat, and always double-tap.

What is it about strategically launching colorful birds at grinning green swine that people have found so addicting? Charles Mauro of Mauro New Media, a 30-year veteran of usability engineering, has given a cognitive teardown of the game's success.

A study, commissioned by Smart Money and Redbook states, "All couples argue from time to time, and, in a general sense, it turns out we're all arguing about the same things." We probably didn't need a study to tell us that we present what is truly bothering us through superficial outlets such as being outraged at finding teaspoons in the tablespoon tray.

The potential for the social apps of the future is an exciting concept and hopefully the next “awesome” announcement will offer something new and useful, like teleportation apps, not another update to the Internet circa 2006.

Despite there being literally millions of social networking sites available, gamma-tanned teenagers, stalkers, and bored office workers worldwide were excited to hear that Google has now entered the social networking race. Literally hundreds of start-up sites appear each week and disappear just as quickly, but when an enterprise like Google announced its new social network Google+, everyone took notice.

The first half of Tuesday's match started as a neck-to-neck competition until the U.S. scored two goals within 20 minutes in the second half. After the match, North Korea manager Kwang Min Kim revealed that during his team's training in Pyongyang the "players were hit by lightning, and more than five of them were hospitalized.

"For the past 50 days we've been disrupting and exposing corporations, governments, often the general population itself, and quite possibly everything in between, just because we could. All to selflessly entertain others - vanity, fame, recognition, all of these things are shadowed by our desire for that which we all love."

Until recently, only Harry Potter was lucky enough to have an invisibility cloak as scientists could only conceal objects at the microscopic scale, which, in my opinion, isn't really concealing anything if no one could see it in the first place.

If you have an urge to sucker punch your high school biology class partner for incessantly cultivating their Farmville farm and clogging up your newsfeed you can block them or, for an affordable $20, you can unleash the rage.

Originally developed for bakeries where some products were too soft for human hands, the SWITL shows great potential in streamlining processes in meat-by-the sheet making factories; but how practical is it for home use?

Until now, apart from illegally jailbreaking your phone, which can cause a host of other issues; the exclusive agreements between AT&T and iPhone -- and most other service providers and phone manufacturers -- have prevented the option of swapping SIM cards, allowing your mobile to work with more than one carrier, also known as "unlocking" a phone.

Among the Angry Birds enthusiasts who are on course to clock up 1.2 billion hours of usage in the U.S., I am curious to know how many will break from catapulting wingless birds at cleverly stationed green swine in an attempt to get back their stolen eggs. So they can cook them.